W.R. Elsberry's The Austringer
Neural Nets and the Passage of Time
Thirty years ago, Diane and I were engaged in a madcap dash across the country, a 25-hour road-trip from our
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Confusion on Falsifiability Still Prevalent at Discovery Institute
Yes, this is another “dog bites man” story, but it is probably worth memorializing that various and sundry “intelligent design”
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One Century and Almost Two Months
The United States officially entered World War I on April 6th, 1917. For countries not named “Spain”, this marked the
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Our Changing Oceans
Even people who pay attention to climate change tend to think in terrestrial terms: aridity, extreme weather, crop management changes,
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Cooperative Hunting by Cuban Boas
A news item I ran across talked about research showing coordinated hunting by Cuban boas. As someone associating with one
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In Hot Water: Second Sous Vide Dinner
The maiden voyage with the new Anova Bluetooth Sous Vide Precision Cooker was a dinner with pork chops cooked to
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New Thing for Me: RepRap
I’ve got a Folger Tech FT-5 3D printer kit that I’m putting together. I’ve just gotten the mechanical parts of
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The Big Leak
There are a couple of things that were said in defense of President Donald Trump’s release of sensitive, formerly classified
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In Hot Water: Cooking with Sous Vide
For several years now, I’ve been thinking about home-brew approaches to sous vide cooking. When I first heard of this,
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The Zombie MP3
This is an interesting article from NPR, not just for the content on how better alternatives to the MP3 lossy
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The End of Win32
An article on ZDNet discusses impending changes in Microsoft Windows products. In order for the Windows brand and Microsoft’s software
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Net Neutrality for Opponents
There seems to be a lot of confusion about net neutrality. Of course, there’s also a lot of corporate propaganda
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Hunter and Biosonar — Again
The Discovery Institute featured a post by Cornelius Hunter on how echolocation (biosonar) is a problem for evolution. This has
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Climate Change: Another Denialist Site
People link to the weirdest things. A Facebook discussion with a local climate change denier had him posting: Here’s a
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Florida: Full-Bore Libertarianism Around the Corner
Brandon Haught of Florida Citizens for Science discusses taking action concerning a Florida Senate bill about instructional materials. The bill
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Net Neutrality and Nincompoops
Reason’s Nick Gillespie gave a fawning interview to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the topic of net neutrality. Along the
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Bunny vs. United
United Airlines can’t catch a break. The latest problem reported by the BBC involves the death of a giant rabbit
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Observations on Photo Printing
I think it was three years ago when I got our latest printer, a Canon Pro9000 Mk. II. This is a printer that will do photo prints on 13×19″ paper. I decided I wanted to print something large this evening. I’ll note that this printer spent about 15 months in a pod at a storage… Read More »
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